St. Mary & All Saints' Church

23/05/2026

The church will be open Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, and on into next week.... It is a naturally cool space and and all are welcome to rest and find relief from the heat. Please know yourself welcome.

15/05/2026

Two members of our choir (Director of Music Aaron Nihal King and alto Harriet Lawson) will be playing a new piano duet in our recital tomorrow, 12.30pm! This new piece has been written specially for this occasion!

Aaron Nihal King is a composer, conductor and performer with work spanning a wide range of musical genres. Aaron has been Director of Music and Organist at St. Mary & All Saints Church since 2021, having originally moved to Beaconsfield to study Composing for Film & Television at the prestigious National Film & Television School. His film credits as an orchestrator include the final two Mission: Impossible films, The Marlow Murder Club, and Netflix series ‘The Dinosaurs’, and he has composed music for several award winning short films. Meanwhile his choral music has been performed by ensembles such as Tenebrae and The Bach Choir, and he was the composer for ‘Come Dine With Me: The Musical’.

Harriet Lawson studied piano, harpsichord and voice at the Royal College of Music, later training as a postgraduate répétiteur at the RCM Opera School. She spent 35 years based in Italy, working as a répétiteur and continuo player at major houses including Teatro Verdi (Trieste), Teatro Massimo (Palermo) and Teatro Piccolo (Milan), as well as the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. She has also collaborated with Glyndebourne, Radio France, Radio Suisse and Orchestra Verdi di Milano. Now back in the UK, Harriet continues to accompany, teach, and work when not tending to her garden or bees or daughter. She also sing with the Wooburn Singers and the choir of St Mary and All Saints.

15/05/2026

We are very proud of our newly refurbished viewing platform at the top of the tower. After the steps broke we had to close down tower visits, but we are ship shape and ready for this year's Country Fair in August. Do come along, the views from the top are phenomenal.

14/05/2026

As well as two Elenas, we also have two Andrews performing in our special lunchtime recital this Saturday (free entry, 12.30pm), celebrating the recent donation of a grand piano to the church!

Andrew Gallacher was the first prize winner at the Brighton and Hove Springboard Concerto Competition in 2016, where adjudicator Timothy Barratt praised his "imaginative playing" and "incisive control". He has since performed in numerous venues including the Wigmore Hall, St James’ Church Sussex Gardens, Faversham Assembly Halls, St Butolph Without Aldgate, St Luke’s Church Maidenhead (where he is a regular recitalist at their biannual music festival), All Saints Church Marlow, St George the Martyr in Borough (London) and United Reform Church Beaconsfield.

Andrew Melvin studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Rosemarie Wright and composition at Cambridge and Brunel Universities, gaining a PhD in composition. He specialises in 20th century and contemporary piano repertoire including his own piano compositions. Performances as a solo pianist include Finzi’s ‘Eclogue’ for piano and string orchestra with the Chandos Ensemble, the complete ‘Música Callada’ by Federico Mompou (Nagoya, Japan) and Kurtág ‘Games’ (Játékok) performed as part of ‘Touchdown’ educational dance project with English National Ballet at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London.

13/05/2026

Introducing two (out of six!) of the wonderful pianists performing in our (free!) lunchtime recital, this Saturday at 12.30l! Elena Kiseleva and Elena Vorotko will be performing a duet by Schumann together, as well as solo pieces.

Elena Kiseleva has won numerous awards and performed extensively throughout the UK, including appearances at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall, as well as across Europe, with concerts in Italy, Spain, France, Finland, Sweden, Portugal and Russia. She has participated in prestigious festivals including the Moscow Autumn Festival, Aurora Festival in Sweden, Notwich Festival and Santander Festival in Spain.

Elena Vorotko is a previous winner of the Alfred Brendel Award and the Harriet Cohen Bach Prize. In 2005 she was chosen by the Keyboard Trust to give recitals in UK, Germany, Italy, South and North America, and in 2006 she won Third Prize at the XVth J. S. Bach International Competition in Leipzig. Her debut at the Park Lane New Year Series 2006 at the Purcell Room was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and won her critical acclaim. She has also performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall, St James’s Piccadilly and St Martin-in-the-Fields and appeared on BBC Radio and Television.

08/05/2026

Saturday 16th May at 12.30pm
Free - donations welcome - refreshments included

03/05/2026

Thank you to all the dogs and cats and tortoises and rats and worms that came along to our pet service today. A joyous morning of worship.

01/05/2026

21/04/2026

Enjoying the profusion of spring flowers and wildlife in the churchyard, and of course, the sunshine.